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SPECIAL COLLECTION:
Undefined Medicinal Plants

This page serves as a placeholder for species which have been indicated to have medicinal use in the literature but for which specific information has not been researched and included in the EEB Greenhouse database. In many cases, these names have turned up in a check of the KEW Medicinal Plant Names Service.
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8 Accessions:

Ansellia africana Asclepias curassavica Burchellia bubalina Camellia sinensis


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  • {0} Ansellia africana - Leopard Orchid - Orchidaceae
  • {1} Cryptostegia grandiflora - Rubber Vine, Purple Allamanda - Apocynaceae
  • {2} Burchellia bubalina - Buffalo Wood - Rubiaceae
  • {3} Cissus rotundifolia - Arabian Wax Cissus - Vitaceae
  • {4} Acalypha wilkesiana `Macafeana' - Copperleaf - Euphorbiaceae
  • {5} Asclepias curassavica - Blood-flower - Apocynaceae
  • {6} Camellia sinensis - Tea - Theaceae
  • {7} Bursera simaruba - Gumbo-Limbo, Tourist Tree - Burseraceae

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